by Dan Iverson

#260 – PeopleTools Patch Rollback


5 years of The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast!

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan celebrate 5 years of podcasting and then take a detour into PeopleTools Patching. They discuss what rolling back a PeopleTools Patch would look like and share some thoughts on how to make PeopleTools Patch testing easier.

Show Notes

  • 5 Years @ 1:30
  • CPU Patching @ 4:30
  • PeopleTools Patch Rollback Planning @ 9:30
  • Testing PeopleTools Patches @ 27:00
by Dan Iverson

#245 – Bring Your PET to Work


This week on the podcast, Jim Marion joins us to talk about PTF and the changes to Selenium, Kibana related content, and (re)introduces Pluggable Encryption Technology.

If you want to learn more about PeopleTools, Fluid, Integrations and so much more, Jim offers the best PeopleSoft training out there.

Show Notes

by Dan Iverson

#210 – Continuous Delivery


This week on the podcast, Jim Marion joins us to talk about how continuous delivery on the application side impacts PeopleTools. We also talk about Kyle’s “PUM Scrum” idea and some of our favorite features in the upcoming PeopleTools 8.58 release.

Show Notes

  • 8.58 Excitement @ 3:00
  • Continuous Delivery Impacts on PeopleTools @ 7:15
  • “PUM Scrum” and PTF @ 23:00
by Dan Iverson

#139 – Redeploy


This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss the new PeopleSoft Support timeframe, controlling how much data the Search Framework indexes, and how to use Facter to redeploy software via the DPK.

Show Notes

  • 2030 Commitment @ 1:00
  • Auto Select Follow-up @ 7:15
    • http://www.peoplesoftwiki.com/lookup-exclusion
    • http://blog.psftdba.com/2006/05/lookup-exclusion-table.html?m=1
  • PeopleSoft Test Framework and TLS @ 8:45
  • Facter and Redeploy @ 12:00
  • Search Framework – Last X days @ 19:00
  • Puppet variable warnings @ 27:00
by Dan Iverson

#93 – Forced Adoption

This week on the podcast, Kyle recaps the Phire User Group meeting, his PTF talk, and shares a nice tip on integrating Usage Monitor with PTF scripts. Then, Dan and Kyle discuss the latest changes with HR Image 23 and PeopleTools 8.56 and forcing users to adopt new technologies.

Show Notes

by Dan Iverson

#77 – Why the Cloud is Important w/ David Bain

This week on the podcast David Bain, Product Manager for PeopleTools, joins us to talk about Fluid, the Cloud and PeopleSoft, and his favorite PeopleTools features. Dan and Kyle also recap some great discussions they had at the Collaborate conference.

Show Notes

  • David Bain Interview
    • Why the cloud is important to PeopleSoft @ 2:00
    • Why Fluid is a better user interface @ 13:00
    • Favorite new PeopleTools feature @ 19:45
    • How PeopleSoft uses PTF internally @ 22:45
    • Favorite PeopleTools feature of all time @ 26:00
  • Recap of David’s Interview @ 28:00
  • Unsexy software features @ 38:00
  • “Hidden” PeopleTools features @ 39:30
  • Interaction Hub @ 45:45
  • Phire and a Testing Module @ 52:30
by Dan Iverson

#63 – Revisiting PS_APP_HOME

This week, Dan and Kyle talk about writing PTF tests for PeopleTools, running multiple IB domains and trying A CM again. Then, we revisit our strategies for managing PS_APP_HOME when applying selective maintenance.

Show Notes

by Dan Iverson

#60 – PeopleSoft Test Framework 101

This week on the podcast, Dan tries a different Remote Desktop tool, using RSS feeds to monitor PeopleSoft data and comparing SQL Explain Plans with SQL Developer. Then Kyle gives a great overview of the PeopleSoft Test Framework and what you need to know before using it.

Show Notes